Re: PGT003 error

2010-09-08 Thread David Boyes
Check to make sure you haven't overlaid your page space with a minidisk. I just took a hit on my DEV LPAR which brought it down the error was: PGT003 Explanation: The DASD page slot being released was not previously allocated, or the slot address is incorrect. Has anyone seen this before and

Re: Removing SSL Support From z/VM 4.4

2010-09-07 Thread David Boyes
We have a z/VM 4.4 system which was setup to use Sine Nomine's Linux guest to provide SSL tn3270 support. It has broken, and I would just like to remove the feature so that z/VM TCP/IP would just use regular tn3270. What version of the guest? We have maintained it over time, so if you've

Re: Removing SSL Support From z/VM 4.4

2010-09-07 Thread David Boyes
I didn't think you guys were still maintaining it for the older systems (z/VM 4.4 on MP3K). We sure are. We just aren't doing one for the new systems that no longer use the Linux-based SSL (because, well, they don't use it). It still can't fix the basic scalability design problems with the

Re: BookManager format softcopy

2010-09-07 Thread David Boyes
The key trick to getting around this with PDFs is to have access to a full copy of Acrobat and regularly run 'pdfindex' to generate an index file for all your PDF documents. You can give that index file to the PDF reader, and your searches will work more like the Bookie ones (cross-book and

Re: Moving On

2010-09-07 Thread David Boyes
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth This month, I will be leaving Nationwide Insurance and taking up work with Velocity Software. At this rate, expect the (hostile?) take-over bid for IGS any day now.

Re: BookManager format softcopy

2010-09-07 Thread David Boyes
More feedback (1 = gotta have it now, 4 = when you have a lot of free time) - TOC simplification and consistency (avoid useless divisions of information) 3. We're used to it by now, and the PDF manuals don't really exhibit this problem too badly. - PDF bookshelf and search enhancements 2.

FW: Ohio LinuxFest 2010 - Registration extended

2010-09-03 Thread David Boyes
...@ohiolinux.org] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:31 PM To: David Boyes Subject: Ohio LinuxFest 2010 - Registration extended Columbus, Ohio -- September 1, 2010 -- Registration for the 2010 Ohio LinuxFest has been extended through September 8th, and the registration contest has also been

Re: BookManager format softcopy

2010-09-03 Thread David Boyes
Sounds like a plan. I'd actually omit the Information Center docs too -- they're almost impossible to use, really. The z/VM Information Center and PDF files would still be produced.

Re: BookManager format softcopy

2010-09-03 Thread David Boyes
I'm curious. I have a KindleDX expressly so that I can easily read PDF books which are US Letter or A4 sized. Given the upswing in other, smaller, ebook readers (and things like iPod touch and smartphones), would a mobi format be useful? ePub format would be generally about as helpful as

Re: BookManager format softcopy

2010-09-03 Thread David Boyes
The Information Center is very nice in that regard. You can download and run it on your workstation if you like, or you can use the Internet version. Learning curve is nil. Are there any docs on how to use it better? I find it really confusing and hard to work with. -- db

Re: BookManager format softcopy

2010-09-03 Thread David Boyes
With regard to your mention of PDF search capability, have you downloaded and tried the IBM Advanced Linguistic Search Plug-in for searching enabled PDFs and across PDF extended shelves with the same (or nearly same) search quality as BookManager? PDFs don't give me problems. It's the Info

Re: DEVICES Statement in SYSTEM CONFIG

2010-09-03 Thread David Boyes
I think someone mentioned this recently, but one way to do this is to put only the system-owned volumes in the online-at-ipl statement, and then vary on and attach the appropriate volumes in AUTOLOG1 (or your equivalent) before you start autologging machines. It's easier to modify the list

Re: Duplicate VOLID's

2010-08-27 Thread David Boyes
I’ve always liked Vn, where n is the order of acquisition in your organization, eg V1 for the first volume acquired, V2 for the second, etc. The V is there to not confuse commands that need a volser as input into thinking they’re dealing with a real address (once had that problem

Re: Duplicate VOLID's

2010-08-27 Thread David Boyes
On 8/27/10 1:38 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: But I could imagine something like this in SYSTEM CONFIG: CP_Owned Slot 1 6X0RES ID 2105.000.IBM.13.3737504EE.0D0A CP_owned Slot 2 6X0TD1 ID 2107.900.IBM.13.29839621A.0D0A CP_owned Slot 3 6X0PG1 ID

Re: Duplicate VOLID's

2010-08-27 Thread David Boyes
Who’s using it is a different issue, and with the size of systems we’re starting to see, the name of the disk isn’t going to tell you anything worthwhile anyway. 6 characters just isn’t enough to overload with any useful meaning beyond a fairly small environment. I manage that problem in the

Re: Coupling TN3270E sessions to VTAM

2010-08-26 Thread David Boyes
On 8/26/10 4:02 AM, Dieltiens Geert geert.dielti...@inf.vanbreda.be wrote: I can do the same using the TN3270E server in VM: I can connect a TN3270E session to VM/VTAM using the DIAL VTAM command (manually, or from SCEXIT) which creates a Non-SNA-session on which I can show an USSTAB menu.

Re: RSCS Messages

2010-08-17 Thread David Boyes
There is/was a school of thought that says it shouldn't be TOO easy for someone to get more privileges; that there should be a ceremony of some sort that TPTB would notice. Commonly known as the bonfire of the vanities. Please let it be Friday, somewhere... --d b

Re: SAMBA: memory problem

2010-08-17 Thread David Boyes
Mark's question was WHY are you building from source? Why not use the pre-built code that came with your distribution? One common reason is that AFAIK neither distribution yet builds the necessary components for autoassigning uid values if you are integrating a Linux system into an AD domain

Re: Report CPU utilization under Z/VM

2010-08-17 Thread David Boyes
We wrote a sample EXEC here, with the Help of this list (of course), that gove a CP IND commands from time to time (each 5 minutes), and then write this data on a CMS file. This process run very well, because We can see the CPU utilization from all times of the day (Online , and Batch at

Re: SAMBA: memory problem

2010-08-17 Thread David Boyes
On 8/18/10 12:57 AM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.fr wrote: Ok. I understand now... but I don't have a linux... Can't it be done without having one ? There is a very old port of Samba that can run in OpenEdition/VM, and there is an IBM product that might still be available (LANRES/VM)

Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest

2010-08-16 Thread David Boyes
On 8/16/10 10:37 AM, Macioce, Larry larry.maci...@com.state.oh.us wrote: What about Bacula? Dr Boyes could speak could speak on this point better And you always want to shutdown the guest to get a good backup Long term, setting up Bacula would probably be a Good Thing, but probably doesn't

Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest

2010-08-16 Thread David Boyes
On 8/16/10 10:49 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Wouldn't doing a dd in the running Linux guest to a separate disk, then backing up that disk result in a good backup? Assuming that the application has synced its data, of course. If you unmount the filesystem you dumped

Re: How to copy a disk using a z/Linux guest

2010-08-16 Thread David Boyes
On 8/16/10 11:10 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: First, we do not count on Full pack backups for our restores normally we use FDRUPSTREAM to backup the guests file systems on a daily and weekly basis, however the guests are still running when this is done

Re: Disaster Recovery TCPIP Address Issue

2010-08-12 Thread David Boyes
Would this be done with the SYSTEM_IDENTIFIER statement in the SYSTEM CONFIG For the SYSTEM CONFIG changes, yes. for SYSTEM NETID, you need to make the changes on MAINT 490 and then DDR 490 to 190. Note: disruptive, so do during a maintenance window. and if so, how do I find my current

Re: EMC, Celerra and FCP

2010-08-10 Thread David Boyes
By whom? FCP is pretty much FCP these days; it may not be approved by the manufacturer, but it certainly works (and with much less sophisticated hardware). The only issue I can think of is whether your switches support NPIV, which is pretty much required to effectively use FCP storage in z/VM.

Linux on Z and z/VM Track at Ohio Linuxfest, 9/10-12

2010-08-04 Thread David Boyes
. Registration is available at http://ohiolinux.org/. I'll be giving a presentation on Nifty CMS Tools You Didn't Know Existed, But Should Install Right NOW!, and if there is enough interest, there'll be cool t-shirts. See you there! -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates

Re: z/VM OSA with z/OS guest

2010-07-30 Thread David Boyes
If you want to stick to dedicating the adapters, you¹ll need to use different real addresses (eg, 7D0,7D1,7D2, 7D3, 7D4, 7D5, etc), but dedicate them to the same virtual address (eg 7D0, 7D1, 7D2) in the CP directory for the zOS guests. In the directory for z/OS 1: DEDICATE 7D0 7D0 DEDICATE 7D1

Re: z/VM OSA with z/OS guest

2010-07-30 Thread David Boyes
On 7/30/10 12:02 PM, Ray Waters ray.wat...@opensolutions.com wrote: David, I believe you have your DEDICATE statements backwards: DEDICATE VIRTCUU REALCUU *sigh* It's been that sort of day. You are correct. Please transpose in my examples.

Re: Replacing old solution OpenConnect SNA Printer Server

2010-07-29 Thread David Boyes
NJE Bridge, RSCS NJE license and SNAPRSIM (originally written at University of Maryland, and still available from various VM Workshop tapes). SNAPRSIM lets you provide acquirable printer LU devices in VTAM and turn them into VM spool files. RSCS ships the files over to NJE Bridge running on

Re: New standard for networking help

2010-07-19 Thread David Boyes
The point was not the format, but that the information was organized, complete, and easy to read. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott I think you missed the intent of the suggestion. Often we see that people don't know what information might be useful to solve a problem. If there

Re: New standard for networking help

2010-07-16 Thread David Boyes
My friend, Chuckie, whispered to me that all World-Class Systems Programmers would undoubtedly like to know about and adhere to this new Standard of Excellence, so I immediately thought of you all. :-) I admit to being anxious to see how others will improve upon this standard (such

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2010-07-12 Thread David Boyes
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/technology/12google.html?_r=1nl=technologyemc=techupdateema1 Sounds like somebody finally listened to Cowlishaw. --d b (BTW, almost done with a port of Regina to Android.)

Re: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-07 Thread David Boyes
I'll second what Mike said about TRACEXEC. It's a great tool. It's not going to do what you envisioned originally as far as working with two screens, but you should consider TRACEXEC anyway. If you do go the two-userids-with-SFS route, also consider SESSION. It allows you to log into one

Re: RSCS in the base VM

2010-06-23 Thread David Boyes
As far as I can remember, only the LPR/LPD functions were cost-free. The other RSCS functions (ie, any NJE function, IP SNA or CTC) required a license. The General Info manuals would probably have that information, or you could look at the announcement letters on IBMlink. On 6/23/10 4:33 PM,

Re: CICS and z/VM

2010-06-23 Thread David Boyes
On 6/23/10 6:51 PM, Rich Smrcina r...@velocitysoftware.com wrote: On 06/23/2010 05:43 PM, Howard Rifkind wrote: A friend of mine stated that CICS can run native under z/VM with z/OS being present. There was a CICS/VM about 20 years back that did not require a guest OS, however it was

Re: Issuing VM commands from z/OS...

2010-06-22 Thread David Boyes
AFAIK, there's still no IBM-supported way to do this. VSE put the VM interfaces in ages ago, but they've always been a bit smarter about playing nice with hypervisors. There's a nice mod on the SHARE mods tapes that teaches JES to CP CLOSE spool files via DIAG 8 and also provides a utility

Re: Issuing VM commands from z/OS...

2010-06-22 Thread David Boyes
NJE connection to RSCS or NJE Bridge would also work (without having to write any code).

Re: what is a 'full pack' minidisk?

2010-06-18 Thread David Boyes
I usually use the following terms, but they are by no means standardized. 0-END is full pack. 1-END is Entire usable disk From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 5:06 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: what

Re: I hate to ask -- VM passwords authenticated against AD?

2010-06-16 Thread David Boyes
I have most of the piece parts done (IUCV driver, PAM driver, Kerberos and LDAP interfaces, Linux guest to do the heavy lifting) to enable VM to use any authentication sources supported by PAM, including AD. The remaining part is the necessary CP modules to normalize all the entry points to CP

Re: I hate to ask -- VM passwords authenticated against AD?

2010-06-16 Thread David Boyes
In this case, however, both IBM and CA offer products for sale in this space. I would rather see the requirement levied against the various ESMs to provide this function since that's where it logically belongs. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott I'd make a counterargument that if

Re: I hate to ask -- VM passwords authenticated against AD?

2010-06-16 Thread David Boyes
When building an ESM, you have some fairly complex challenges. At the top of the list, the ESM 1. Cannot be simply or easily circumvented (even by a sysadmin [as opposed to sysprog] ), 2. Must enforce a limited set of operations when the ESM server is down sufficient only to get the ESM

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-02 Thread David Boyes
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Natch. One must always challenge a flawed finding. Likewise, one must accept the valid ones. Wisdom is knowing the difference. [With apologies to Dr. Niebuhr.] I

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-01 Thread David Boyes
This may have been asked before but I was wondering the best way to Automatically log off a CMS user after a designated time frame. This is to address an Audit finding. If your users log in via tn3270, you can use idle timeouts in the TCPIP virtual machine to kill idle connections, and let

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-01 Thread David Boyes
With care, as an idle terminal does not imply an idle virtual machine. Indeed, although I suspect his auditor is whining about terminals left unattended.

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-01 Thread David Boyes
On Tuesday, 06/01/2010 at 09:51 EDT, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: This may have been asked before but I was wondering the best way to Automatically log off a CMS user after a designated time frame. This is to address an Audit finding. You opened the

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-01 Thread David Boyes
With care, as an idle terminal does not imply an idle virtual machine. Indeed, although I suspect his auditor is whining about terminals left unattended. Back in 1970 we had no other solution. Things have progressed somewhat since then and a properly mandated and managed end

Re: Automated Logoff of CMS user

2010-06-01 Thread David Boyes
I'm with Marcy on this one. You could argue it, but it's trivially easy to do with several methods, so save the effort for something bigger. -- db From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:29 AM To:

Re: z/OS and SIGNAL SHUTDOWN

2010-05-26 Thread David Boyes
as i know the signal is ignored. If you deactivate a running z/OS Lpar, the z/OS in this LPAR does just die. Well, boo. That seems to be an integrity issue -- if that signal appears and if the time remaining is non-zero, z/OS ought to at least TELL you that it happened, even if it doesn't

Re: IFL Problem

2010-05-25 Thread David Boyes
Sounds like a requirement to me. After all, what else runs on an IFL? OpenSolaris z/VM itself Windows ... --db

z/OS and SIGNAL SHUTDOWN

2010-05-25 Thread David Boyes
In another discussion, the question of what z/OS does with a LPAR shutdown signal (the hardware equivalent of SIGNAL SHUTDOWN) by default came up. Does anyone know? Does it generate a message or trigger a START command or does it just die horribly? Can it be trapped and used to initiate some

Re: OS390 Guests using GRS and Sharing DASD with virtual RESERVE/RELEASEbgggtggncv under z/VMnjxjgj

2010-05-23 Thread David Boyes
Klaatu Baratu Nicto? On May 23, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Alain Benveniste a.benveni...@free.frmailto:a.benveni...@free.fr wrote: Ccghhjjkkjjkkjvjhjjklknbvvbbbvvknbkbbbnbs:.. WkfbbSfffjjh Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 22 mai 2010 à 22:30, Kris Buelens

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-21 Thread David Boyes
If you're using SYSVINIT: TELL AUTOLOG1 SERVICE linuxguest STOP On 5/21/10 11:28 AM, louis.gai...@its.ms.gov louis.gai...@its.ms.gov wrote: do u have a example thanks

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread David Boyes
We wrote a tool to do this (SYSVINIT). You can define groups of virtual machines, specify dependencies so things come up in order, etc, etc. Free to the world. http://www.sinenomine.net/vm/s5init or search for it on www.sinenomine.net. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM

Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest

2010-05-20 Thread David Boyes
@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Shutting Down Linux Guest Actually - it's at: http://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/s5i Sounds nice .. I'll be checking it out -- wrote something similar for internal IBM systems -- Scott Rohling On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:32 PM, David Boyes dbo

Re: z/VM 5.4 and RHEL 4.6

2010-05-13 Thread David Boyes
We are converting to z/VM 5.4 on our new z10. We have one set of z/Linux guests that still run RHEL 4.6. Does anyone know of any issues running RHEL 4.6 under z/VM 5.4? No, that works just fine with the following exception: If you are running with dedicated OSA ports, RHEL 4.6 has trouble

Re: Actions at Midnight

2010-05-07 Thread David Boyes
VMUTIL is since ages no longer part of the base VM system; WAKEUP is, but the execs around it forming VMUTIL are no longer there. Guess that shows how long I've been at this. I've been carefully nursing a copy of VMUTIL since SP5. 8-) Maybe I need my brain flushed. I suspect IBM would pay for

Re: Actions at Midnight

2010-05-07 Thread David Boyes
I should have mentioned that VMUTIL was not part of VM/Sp but was included in an licensed add-on package called (I think) ISPF. VM/IPF, later CMS Utilities.

Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available

2010-05-07 Thread David Boyes
Can I just add one caveat. One of the types of licence Microsoft provides is an OEM licence. In the case of a desktop OS an OEM licence is NOT TRANSFERABLE and dies with the hardware its installed on. Yes. You're responsible for supplying a legitimate Windows license for the appliance

Re: Actions at Midnight

2010-05-06 Thread David Boyes
VMUTIL is part of the base system, and does tasks like that. If you use it, set it to fire a few moments before or after midnight - longstanding issue of losing events precisely at midnight.

Re: DDR Back-up with verifying Tape label

2010-05-06 Thread David Boyes
What do you mean 'the version of DDR that works with CMS Pipelines'? http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?DRPC It's been out there for almost 2 years now. I don't know why it isn't the default version of DDR by now. Too much other stuff to do, I guess. coud you give me sample

Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available

2010-05-06 Thread David Boyes
No, it is not related to Mantissa's work at all. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:24 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Windows Enabler Appliance on System z Now Available Interesting. Is

Re: FTP of Nomad database files from VM to VM

2010-05-05 Thread David Boyes
Try TYPE E, MODE B. You need both to preserve CMS file structure. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy, David Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:16 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: FTP of Nomad database files from VM to VM All, I am

Re: VMTAPE Command

2010-05-05 Thread David Boyes
I'd be somewhat surprised that a hardware provider has a requirement for a very specific software vendor's tape library product (e.g. CA's VM:Tape, IBM's Tape Manager for z/VM product, etc.). In fact, since the interface for manipulating library changer hardware is not documented, most call

Re: VMTAPE Command

2010-05-05 Thread David Boyes
How the library manager is controlled depends entirely upon the manufacturer. When we had an IBM ATL, we indeed used RMSMASTER. Ah, right. I keep forgetting about the STK stuff -- I guess the therapy finally took 8-). In any case, the point still stands that the tape managers call something

Re: full-pack dedicated volumes vs full-pack minidisk volumes

2010-05-05 Thread David Boyes
In our shop, we have Linux guest machines defined as dedicated volumes (this was a holdover from the days before we got z/VM). Some other Linux machines are also using full-pack minidisks. Is there an advantage to using one over the other? What about performance? Fullpack minidisks are

Re: DDR Back-up with verifying Tape label

2010-05-04 Thread David Boyes
If you mean the volser of the tape, no. DDR uses unlabeled tapes. Or use the version of DDR that works with CMS Pipelines (NOT PIPEDDR) and have the TAPn stage manage the labels. Works nicely. Do I need to do a requirement for IBM to ship the version of DDR that supports this as the default

Re: DDR Back-up with verifying Tape label

2010-05-04 Thread David Boyes
, Can't speak to CMS file support, but the existing requirement for DDR/PIPES is sufficient for us to complete that work. Regards, Eric Eric Farman z/VM I/O Development IBM Endicott, NY From: David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 05/04/2010 07:56 AM

Re: VMTAPE Command

2010-05-04 Thread David Boyes
VMTAPE is a product currently owned by CA. It's not part of the base system. -- db From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mario Izaguirre Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:25 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VMTAPE Command Hi listeners, I wanted

Re: Converting Text to XLS

2010-04-21 Thread David Boyes
That is what I have been providing for them. It makes no difference whether the file is banana.txt or banana.csv, it will be opened properly by Excel. As much as I dislike dealing with XML in general, the XML suggestion is probably the best one so far. That would let you generate both data

Re: RSCS: Printing to Ricoh Copier with LPR

2010-04-06 Thread David Boyes
On 4/6/10 8:42 PM, Les Geer lg...@vnet.ibm.com wrote: My question: Is there any way to get RSCS to send the usercode? What PARM statement would I use? Which RSCS LPR exit are you using? LPRXONE does not currently include the -o record in the control file sent to the printer. You

Re: HiperSocket UCBs

2010-04-05 Thread David Boyes
Create a Linux guest as a L2 bridge between a VSWITCH and the hipersocket. Only one HS UCB used, and you still get separation. You can use VLANs to separate traffic.

Re: HiperSocket UCBs

2010-04-05 Thread David Boyes
Are there any performance implications with doing it this way as opposed to HiperSocket directly to each guest? Yes - I'll leave it to others to quantify it exactly, but it will use a non-zero amount of 390 CPU to do the packet forwarding between interfaces. Since there is no external

Re: HiperSocket UCBs

2010-04-05 Thread David Boyes
The VSWITCH does not support attachment of HiperSockets. You should fix that. Where's my requirement pad? 8-) -- d b

Re: [?? Probable Spam] Re: Perfkit SAMPLE CONFIG size too small

2010-03-31 Thread David Boyes
WAVV requirement WRIBDB12 submitted to increase the default MONDCSS size to accommodate the maximum supported configuration for a VM system. -- db On 3/30/10 2:51 PM, Barton Robinson bar...@velocitysoftware.com wrote: very large mondcss segments do not impact performance, only small ones do.

Re: ACM award

2010-03-30 Thread David Boyes
On 3/30/10 5:50 PM, Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com wrote: I can understand modern computing organizations being ignorant of historical modern computing environments such as z/VM -- but the ACM? Doesn't surprise me at all. The ACM has gotten progressively more myopic wrt to doing their

Re: ACM award

2010-03-30 Thread David Boyes
On 3/30/10 5:42 PM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: Aside from the run multiple OSes on the desktop part, shouldn't we be insulted? Oh, it gets better. Check this out (from the press release): Software System Award (sic) honors an institution or individual(s) recognized for developing a

Re: ACM award

2010-03-30 Thread David Boyes
On 3/30/10 10:34 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: Talk about someone that ought to know better Although I guess the out is that it's a yearly award and the commercial acceptance clause is slick enough to slide by. Then again, *how* many copies of PROFS were there? I guess IBM

Ok, I'm confused now...

2010-03-29 Thread David Boyes
Setting up LPR support in RSCS on 5.4. I’ve added the 515 TCP RSCS; RSCS line to PROFILE TCPIP, and recycled TCPIP and RSCS to ensure that they’re picking up the updated PROFILE TCPIP. I’ve defined a LPR link in RSCSTCP CONFIG, and when I print to it, I still get: 10:26:02

Re: MTU on Hipersocket

2010-03-29 Thread David Boyes
We just found out that the defined MTU's differ, and I always heard that MTU sizes should be identical: Unless path discovery is active on both ends of the link, the sizes should be identical. Might this be an explanation? How comes it works fine (most of the time) with apparently different

Re: Ok, I'm confused now...

2010-03-29 Thread David Boyes
You forgot that the LPR *client* doesn't use port 515, but ports 721- 731, inclusive (per RFC 1179). The SECURE=NO recommended by others eliminates the need to reserve those client ports for RSCS. D'oh! Thanks, Alan. My mind is going. -- db

Re: Ok, I'm confused now...

2010-03-29 Thread David Boyes
was the key to not having to mess with SECURE=NO? n Db n Can you post the RSCS LINKDEFINE and PARM statements you coded? Did you specify SECURE=NO on the PARM statement? -Mike From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010

Re: initializing z/Linux disks

2010-03-25 Thread David Boyes
You know the old virtualization saying, Never depend on the kindness of guests. Alan Altmark One might be entertaining angels unaware...8-)

Re: initializing z/Linux disks

2010-03-24 Thread David Boyes
On 3/24/10 1:53 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov wrote: Hi I have a question. What I have been doing up to this point for a new z/Linux guest build is, not necessarily in this order and does not necessarily include all steps but, Crave out the DASD for

Re: initializing z/Linux disks

2010-03-24 Thread David Boyes
On 3/24/10 2:40 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: You can DEDICATE by label rather than by real address. But I still don't like Linux having cyl 0 :) Nice to know. I'd missed that in the help files. Still, safer to let CP and z/OS duke that one out, and let Linux get on

Re: VM/ESA TCP/IP and VSWITCH

2010-03-18 Thread David Boyes
VM/ESA 2.4 had QDIO support (in fact it was the last release to have that module delivered with source). 2.3 might have had it, but I can't remember. I suspect it would work, but can't try it (no longer have a IPLable 2.4 system). From: The IBM z/VM Operating System

FCONAPPC...

2010-03-17 Thread David Boyes
Drawing a blank here, and no docs handy. On 5.4, what disk is FCONAPPC on?

Re: VMUTIL PARM Question

2010-03-16 Thread David Boyes
On 3/16/10 10:05 AM, Bill Munson william.mun...@bbh.com wrote: * * THIS IS THE DEFAULT 'WAKEUP PARMS' FILE THAT IS SUPPLIED WITH * * THE VM/370 IPO/E SYSTEM FOR THE VIRTUAL MACHINE 'VMUTIL'. * Wow. And I

Re: GCS Session managers

2010-03-11 Thread David Boyes
PVM would be a pretty good choice. I have a Linux agent that allows PVM to connect to Linux guests as well.

Re: z/OS and UFT(D)

2010-03-10 Thread David Boyes
On 3/10/10 2:39 PM, Mark Wheeler mwheele...@hotmail.com wrote: I set up UFTD years ago. Of course, our old favorite SENDFILE works seamlessly with it for VM-to-VM file transfers. Alas, without RSCS we have no NJE connections to z/OS for situations where we'd like them to TSO TRANSMIT (for

Re: z/OS and UFT(D)

2010-03-10 Thread David Boyes
On 3/10/10 3:46 PM, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote: is also (somewhere) a single connection TCPNJE server not using RSCS at all. Part of that alternate solution. Neale cons'ed that up to provide a VM spool interface for the NJE Bridge. Not free, but very cheap.

Re: Zombie RDR file

2010-03-10 Thread David Boyes
Check the directory entry for MUCOPER and if the CONSOLE statement has the word MUCOPER on the end of it, remove it and log MUCOPER off and on. It will stop spooling it's console, and that file will go away and never come back.

Re: Question aboout DDR Backup Question

2010-03-09 Thread David Boyes
Use the pipe-capable DDR, and dump to standard label tapes via the TAP SL stage. If you do that, normal multi-volume tape processing is done, and you specify the volumes in the LABELDEF for the output tape DD. Works well.

FW: WAVV200904

2010-03-09 Thread David Boyes
FYI to the community. No standards-based monitoring for VSWITCH in the near future, sad to say. David, we have received the following response to your WAVV200904 Requirement, Add SNMP metric retrieval support to VSWITCH User Group Number - WAVV200904 Document Status - Suggestion Title

Re: Question aboout DDR Backup Question

2010-03-09 Thread David Boyes
It would indeed be nice if IBM or some other vendor would provide a DDR program with full tape label support, but my head got too bloody from beating on that wall 25 years ago. They did. The PIPE-capable DDR lets the TAP stage handle it. Then you don't care about tape length, or label

Re: Question aboout DDR Backup Question

2010-03-09 Thread David Boyes
That is the DRPC package (see http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?DRPC That's it. Thanks, Bruce.

Re: Question aboout DDR Backup Question

2010-03-09 Thread David Boyes
For those wondering: Great! But where do I find The PIPE-capable DDR ?... http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/ Except that's not the one I'm referring to. IBM made available a version of DDR that directly supported PIPE input and output. It was a summer project by an intern, and

Re: Question aboout DDR Backup Question

2010-03-09 Thread David Boyes
That is the DRPC package (see http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?DRPC That's it. Thanks, Bruce. So, Attach a tape drive to your id at virtual address 181 (and one at 182 if you want it to alternate drives) Attach the disk you want to dump at virtual address 1FFF

Re: CP's Parm Disks

2010-03-07 Thread David Boyes
The real problem is that the third-party vendors do not all comply with the standard. I'll second that. If this is the future strategy, then one of the things that needs to happen ASAP is that IBM needs to aggressively provide education to vendors and users alike on how to package stuff

Re: CP's Parm Disks

2010-03-05 Thread David Boyes
On 3/5/10 3:33 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: 2. Renames CPLOAD to CPLOLD on the CF2, erasing any previous CPLOLD in the process. I find the concept of IBM automatically deleting ANYTHING on my SYSTEM CONFIG somewhat troubling unless I explicitly ask for it. How about just

Re: An SFS aid

2010-02-26 Thread David Boyes
On 2/25/10 5:51 PM, Ian S. Worthington ianworthing...@usa.net wrote: -- Original Message -- Received: 05:24 PM COT, 02/25/2010 From: Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: An SFS aid Abbreviations are for humans, not programmers. This 'ere

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